Karl Pfefferkorn
Since the election we have been regaled with articles detailing the steps angry progressives intend to take against anyone not expressing performative outrage at the reelection of Donald Trump. Tik Tok is full of head shaving, sex strikes, and of…
There was much self-congratulation at last week’s meeting of NATO allies over the effort to “Trump-proof” the alliance. The fact that the leaders of the world’s greatest defensive alliance see the once and likely future leader of the country providing…
One of the more preposterous aspects of the protests roiling American college campuses is the insistence of the students that they be spared any adverse consequences for their actions. They expect no suspensions, no expulsions, and most of all no…
What happens when political grandees of a political party lose their grassroots support? We’ve already seen elite delamination happen in the GOP. The wealthy coastal business elites, AKA Bush Republicans, were defenestrated by Trump and the white working class. The…
Donald Trump’s hyperbolic threat to sic Russia on our NATO allies who fail to spend enough on defense prompted the usual screeching and rending of garments by security analysts on both sides of the Atlantic. Almost in unison they argued…
Critics of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s recent $1.2 trillion funding package have compared Congress to a drunken sailor, which is an insult to intoxicated swabbies everywhere. After all, they stop spending once they burn through their earnings. The U.S. government…
Among the least pressing problems facing Washington these days is what to do with all our neglected NeoCons now that Donald Trump has seized the Republican Party and decisively evicted them from their chosen home. They are still rattling around…
Does anyone else recall a U.S. military intervention launched to feed starving civilians that ended with dead American soldiers littering the streets of a distant city? That would be Mogadishu in 1993, where U.S. forces landed to ensure that food…
If you are a novelist, you may abandon inconvenient reality for richly imagined fiction. Consider Evelyn Waugh, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1930. Rather than embrace the low-born majority of his new fellow congregants, he wove the richly tragic…
